salutatory

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An opening or welcoming statement or address, especially one delivered at graduation exercises.

adj. Of, relating to, or expressing a salutation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Characteristic of a salutation or greeting.

n. A greeting or an address or speech of greeting.

n. A place for saluting or greeting; a vestibule; a porch.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Containing or expressing salutations; speaking a welcome; greeting; -- applied especially to the oration which introduces the exercises of the Commencements, or similar public exhibitions, in American colleges.

n. A place for saluting or greeting; a vestibule; a porch.

n. The salutatory oration.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Of the nature of or pertaining to salutation: as, a salutatory address.

n. In the early church, an apartment belonging to a church, or a part of the diaconicum or sacristy, in which the clergy received the greetings of the people.

n. The oration, usually in Latin, delivered by the student who ranks second in his class, with which the exercises of a college commencement begin; loosely, any speech of salutation.

We expect that his path and that of the Bodhidharma will intersect, but while the anticipation of that intersection does supply some tension, the salutatory structure is perhaps the novel's only real weakness.

Other claims such as help in fighting cancer, improving oral health, decreasing eczema or other allergies, or preventing urinary tract infections or vaginal infections in women require much more research, as the data supporting these salutatory effects is weak.

All that we can we say with any degree of certainty is that derivates are intended to produce these salutatory outcomes, but anything that's both relatively new and has produced a bona fide global, financial crisis is undeserving of such facile treatment.